presectarian

comparative more presectarian · superlative most presectarian · alternative pre-sectarian

1. Prior to sects; prior to sectarianism.

   He makes the important observation that Tillemont embodied the presectarian and pre-Jansenist traditions of Port-Royal (pp. 278-279).

   1966 Jul, Martin R. P. McGuire, “Louis-Sebastien le Nain de Tillemont”, in The Catholic Historical Review, volume 52, number 2, page 190

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   In Ireland, just at this time undergoing its literary revival, the Edenic moment was displaced back into the pre-Christian (and therefore presectarian) past and the model figures that emerged as types of Irish identity were, of necessity, legendary—like Cuchalain—and, by nature, susceptible to almost any reformulation.

   1990, Seamus Deane, “Introduction,”, in Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 9

   Nevertheless, the suggestion of a presectarian origin for some of the prayers dealt with in this essay, either close to the ideology and reality of the Qumran community or reflecting a slightly dualistic atmosphere, is a vague solution.

   2007, Bilhah Nitzan, “Traditional and Atypical Motifs in Penitential Prayers from Qumran,”, in Seeking the Favor of God: The Development of Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism, volume 2, Ed. Mark J Boda, Daniel K Falk, and Rodney Alan Werline, Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 208